Rotas

Rota dashboard

How to use the rota dashboard to keep on top of your daily and weekly scheduling tasks.

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Marking a rota for approval

Flag a rota as ready to be reviewed before it's published and visible to other employees.

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Publishing a rota

How to publish a rota so the shifts are visible to all employees.

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Rota validation

Shifts are validated in real-time whenever you make changes to the rota, safeguarding your employees and your business.

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Building rotas manually

How to copy a previous rota or build a rota from scratch.

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Building rotas automatically

Use templates to generate rotas automatically with Rotaready's intuitive scheduling algorithm.

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Template constraints

How to use constraints to affect the behaviour of rota templates when generating a rota automatically.

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Cost Control

How to use Cost Control to compare forecast and actual wages, hours and sales, alongside your budget and more.

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Sign-off

Complete a day or week with sign-off to lock down your data so it's ready for reports and payroll.

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Tronc

Distributing your weekly tips & service charges fairly between your colleagues

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The difference between forecast and actual hours/wages

A walkthrough of the reasons why actual hours/wages will differ from the forecast in Cost Control

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Wage cost calculations

How Rotaready calculates labour cost in real-time and where it's displayed.

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Holiday smoothing

How holiday smoothing prevents a spike in wage costs when holiday is taken by spreading the cost throughout the year.

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Cost streams

How cost streams allow you to compare sales with wages and hours, split out by what matters to you.

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Sanitisation rules

Sanitisation applies rounding rules to clock-in and clock-out events to automatically trim or adjust them when calculating payable hours.

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Pay rules

Pay rules are used to automatically apply the correct pay rate and overtime policy to shifts, depending on your policy.

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Pay element types

These are your different categories of pay rate which allow you to set alternative rates for employees.

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Shift types

How shift types define work to be done and map to cost streams to correctly apportion wages in Cost Control.

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Rest breaks

Configure a rest break policy to have breaks automatically applied to your shifts.

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Cover shifts

How to schedule employee shifts in other sites/departments, often referred to as 'covers'.

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Shift broadcasts (for employers)

How to summon extra people to fill a gap caused by last minute absence, surges in demand or employee no-shows.

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Shift swaps (for employers)

How employees can swap shifts and how to manage the approval process.

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Shift locations

Shift locations define a shift's place of work. They're also used to control where employees can physically clock-in on the Rotaready app.

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Shift routines

For employees with a regular/repeating working pattern, shift routines will automatically create shifts into the future.

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